Mustafa al-Hawsawi

Mustafa al-Hawsawi (born 5 August 1968) is a financier of al-Qaeda from Saudi Arabia. He was responsible for being one of the financers of the 9/11 attacks in the United States on 11 September 2001 and was captured in 2003 in Pakistan.

Biography
Mustafa al-Hawsawi was born on 5 August 1968 in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. He became a member of the al-Qaeda militant group due to his Islamist views, and he shared a credit card account with Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, a major leader of al-Qaeda. In 2000, he sent $325,000 to the planned attackers during the upcoming attacks on the United States by suicidal plane attacks. Along with Ammar al-Baluchi, he assisted United Arab Emirates muscle men in reaching the USA for the attacks. Just before the attacks were carried out on 11 September 2001 (9/11), he left for Pakistan.

On 1 March 2003, Hawsawi was captured by the Pakistani Army and sent to Camp Bagram in Afghanistan for interrogation by the FBI of the United States. Along with Ramzi bin al-Shibh, he was sent to Guantanamo Bay for mental competency tests while held in extrajudicial detention in the US prison camp for terrorists.